Vulnerability

CVE-2018-19608

Medium· 4.7CVSS4.7EPSS0%

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Arm Mbed TLS before 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.

Threat signal

50/100

Elevated

Severity

medium

CVSS

4.7

EPSS

Active

CVSS

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Attack VectorLocalRequires local access — shell, console, or local app.
Attack ComplexityHighRequires conditions outside attacker's control (race, brute-force, configuration
Privileges RequiredLowStandard user privileges sufficient.
User InteractionNoneFully automated — no victim action needed.
ScopeUnchangedImpact contained to the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality ImpactHighTotal disclosure of sensitive data.
Integrity ImpactNoneNo integrity impact.
Availability ImpactNoneNo availability impact.

EPSS

Exploit prediction · 30-day horizonFIRST.org →

0.28%

probability of exploitation in next 30 days

p52

higher than 52% of all CVEs

3-day trend↑ 0pp

Low exploitation likelihood — defer if no other signals fire.

Vendor VEX

No VEX statements published for CVE-2018-19608. Vendors publish VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) to assert per-product whether a CVE is actually exploitable in their distribution.

SSVCDefer

No exploitation, limited impact or prevalence

exploitation: none
automatable: no
impact: partial
mission: support

Lifecycle

2018-12-05Published
2026-06-05Last modified1 source

References

No source-event history recorded yet. New revisions will appear here as ingestors re-fetch this CVE.